On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:30:21 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

That's a different kind of oversteer. Porsche 356s, VW bugs, early Corvairs,
and swing-axle Spitfires all did about the same thing, for the same reason.

With stock suspension, all of them tucked their rear wheels under in a turn
when you got above a certain threshhold of cornering speed. The outside
wheel would climb up on the sidewall and you'd go into drastic oversteer,
usually spinning out.

If you were lucky. I never raced, but for some years I was the guy in
white coveralls hiding behind a haybale on the corner with a fire
extinguisher ready to hand.

One Volkswagen I saw flip in a hairpin turn went completely over after
jacking its left rear wheel. There wasn't a mark on it save for the
right side fenders, which as near as we could figure was the first
thing to hit the ground.